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Originally Posted by speedshftr
im all for usa only but we just dont have enough things made here.its a shame im posting this on a hp puter/non american.gonna watch a sony tv tonight ect ect. i used to drive by the local bmw dealer with my viper and hollor out the window at the salesman and his prey/hey buy american you live here.i would then burn rubber down the road.they probably said look at that redneck/lol our country is in a serious rapid downfall.unless we all unite about it things will be the same.obama should offer huge tax breaks for our companies to manufacture here ect ect.
i feel for the optima people there just a small hurdle in the grand scheme the companys heading.
i do maintenance for a company with over 600 to 850 properties ranging from 550 a month to over 5k a month.we do it all with a workforce of about 17 guys.ive been on 16 years now and we just lost our pensions/took all overtime took our bonus at fathers day which was an extra months pay!!im waiting for them to come down one day and say there selling out or going with a maintinance service company.times are really changing and unless we the american people dont pull together were gonna be in others hands sooner than we think.im not racist or a biggot but there is not even a 7 11 or a gas station around here that still is american owned and operated.im sad for our forfathers who never thought this would happen.only good thing i still have a job to report to for now but for how long ill never know.its a week by week thing.hope you optima guys come out strong and positive
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What's ridiculous about this is, HP has thousands of employees in America, Sony too, and BMW manufacturers thousands of cars here every year, as does Toyota and most other foreign car manufacturers.
The fact is the economy is global now, and it only makes sense for a business to try to reduce their costs and make things where they can do it the cheapest. If you run a business and your competitor goes to China, what do you do? It's rare that you can appeal to the made in the USA crowd like say Edelbrock does and be successful.
And for people who get political about this, do you think anything the administration has done has affected this at all? I know that in my industry, the concern goes way back, and let's be clear, the administration saving GM will have saved tens of thousands of jobs, even though the company had cut tens itself.
What the jobs thing and manufacturing thing really comes down to is companies do not give a damn about their employees. It does not matter who is President, who runs congress, etc, if a company can make more money by doing something, they will do it.